Podcasts

Excerpts from America‘s interview with Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of the Jewish lobby J Street. Read Fr. Raymond Schroth’s article on J Street.

Producing “An Encounter with Simone Weil” was a deeply personal experience for Julia Haslett, who spent six years on the project. Here she talks with Associate Editor Kerry Weber about her journey and what she discovered about the French activist and writer. Haslett’s film premiers on March 23 at Quad Cinema in New York City. […]

Associate Editor Kevin Clarke talked to Virginia Farris, a foreign policy adviser to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shortly after the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani minister who was fighting the blasphemy laws in his country. Here we provide an excerpt from that interview, and an update on the promotion of Bhatti’s cause […]

Thomas G. Weiss, the director of the Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, explains how the international norm known as the “responsibility to protect” helped prevent humanitarian disaster in Libya, and how it might guide the international response to Syria.

How do you talk to young people about the Catholic faith in a way they can understand? For the editors of The Jesuit Post, the answer lies at the intersection of faith and popular culture. In this conversation, the Jesuit scholastics Patrick Gilger, Eric Sundrup, Jim Keane and Sam Sawyer explain the genesis of The […]

James Martin, S.J., and Tim Reidy discuss the hidden themes of grace, suffering, love and forgiveness in the PBS’ series “Downton Abbey.” And why the word “Abbey” is important.

For the fifth year in a row, Bill McGarvey of CathNewsUSA and James Martin, S.J., join Tim Reidy for a discussion of the Oscar contending films. Among their favorites, “The Tree of Life” and The Descendants,” two films with spiritual themes that treat them in very different ways.

In 1968, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., John Brooks, S.J., of the College of the Holy Cross set out to recruit a group of African Americans to attend the small Catholic college in Worcester, Massachusetts. Among those he would bring to the school were Clarence Thomas and Theodore V. Wells, Jr. […]

In an archive interview from the 2010 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, Richard Gaillardetz examines the successes and the still yet unrealized goals of the Second Vatican Council. Should Catholics today focus anew on implementing the Council’s vision, or instead turn outward to evangelize the culture? Or perhaps, fifty years after Vatican II, is a […]

Timothy A. Byrnes talks about his new book Reverse Mission, which looks at three religious communities and the unique ways they have shaped U.S. foreign policy. Byrnes, a professor of political science at Colgate University and a panelist on the Ivory Tower Half Hour, focuses here on the story of the six Jesuits who were […]